Germany

Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik; DDR) is a nation located in central Europe. The country was called East Germany for the majority of the cold war prior to the unification of East and West. Germany founding members of the European Union of Socialist Republics and one of the better off economically in Europe. The country is led by Hans Modrow and the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Germany borders Denmark in the North, Italian Union and Yugoslavia to the south, United Dutch Republics, Belgium, Luxembourg, France to the west and Poland, Hungary and Czechoslavakia to the east.

History
After the Second World War, America and the Soviet Union neatly divided the world into two. Germany's fate was no different. The capitalist powers got the West, while the East entered the Warsaw Pact. A Cold War ensued that saw the USA undergo humiliation after humiliation, and as economic crises plagued the capitalist world, Europe became red. The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was elected in West Germany in 1984 while the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) was elected in Austria in the same year. German reunification happened in the next year, with the East dominating political life. The newly formed EUSR browbeat the Austrian government into joining in 1989.

In 1990, Erich Honecker is encouraged to resign by a Party that believes a new face is needed for a new Germany. That new face is Markus Wolf, and he certainly delivers on the "new" front. Under Markus Wolf, the centre of power is shifted from the General Secretary to the Premier, and a national purge occurs that sees the National Front forcibly integrated into the SED and all dissent in West Germany and Austria crushed with extreme prejudice. Whole again, the GDR becomes an ascendant power, dominating the young EUSR with its industrial might almost too much for the Soviets' liking.

But not everything is sunshine and rainbows, even if you're a leader. Premier Wolf dies in 2006 and the SED elects moderate reformer Hans Modrow who tentatively undoes some of the late Wolf's worst excesses. But more and more, it's becoming apparent that the GDR isn't the communist utopia it thinks it is. The powerful Stasi continues to terrorise the people and reform is painfully slow as party elites drag their feet. The west remains an economic backwater, still wounded by the crises of the capitalist era, and still rife with dissenters. And worst of all, a latent opioid crisis is consuming the country from the inside. The leadership is slow to act, but day by day the crisis worsens and if Hans Modrow hopes to survive the conspiracies whispered in the darkest corners of the Politbüro, he must step up and act.